SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Justice Department lawyer John Yoo is appealing a federal judge's ruling that Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant, can sue him.

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- A group of former Bush administration officials are said to be urging U.S. Justice Department officials to soften an ethics report on interrogation tactics.

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Questions are swirling in legal circles over what, if anything, should happen to U.S. government lawyers who are found to have given flawed advice, experts say.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. Justice Department report criticizes top Bush administration lawyers who approved the use of waterboarding on detainees, Newsweek reported Saturday.

BERKELEY, Calif., May 18 (UPI) -- Protesters at the University of California-Berkeley's law school graduation called for the firing of a professor who wrote the U.S. torture policy.

WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- A now defunct 81-page 2003 memo shows the Justice Department gave Pentagon officials justification to skirt laws banning harsh interrogation tactics.

CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. citizen convicted of aiding terrorists is suing a former federal official whose legal opinions formed the basis for alleged torture techniques.

BERKELEY, Calif., March 14 (UPI) -- The Berkeley, Calif., City Council has voted unanimously to push Germany toward a war crimes indictment against former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

BERLIN, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Germany accuses outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and 11 others of war crimes.